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But when you start applying these blanket philosophies without looking at the results, without looking at how the real world and real needs might conflict with that or might have non-ideal outcomes, you get mediocrity.

And that's just everything about Tahoe's liquid glass redesign is like...

There are certain contexts in which some of these things might work well, but in practice, the way it was applied and maybe the way it will always need to be applied with Mac OS, it just doesn't have good, actual, practical outcomes.

And that's the kind of thing that a good design team and a good design process and a good feedback process would try a bunch of stuff before it ships, of course.

But there wasn't a filter to get it out before it got here.

And I think this goes to, like, you know, Gruber's talked a lot about this, how Alan Dye leaving Apple was not Apple's choice.

You know, we are all celebrating it.

But Alan Dye left for Meta.

By all accounts, on his own accord, an Apple was caught by surprise and presumably as a result, maybe didn't want him to leave or certainly wasn't certainly was not asking him to leave, which means that all the other Apple senior leadership fully supported this.

Craig Federighi fully supported this.

Tim Cook fully supported this.

I suspect that, you know, because you think, like, which of the top execs probably had to be supportive of Alan Dye and this direction for this to ship?

And I'm thinking, at minimum...

Tim Cook, Jeff Williams, Craig Federighi, and Jaws.

I think they all, because that's marketing, I think they all would have had to at least be supportive of this.

So as we think about where this is going to go in the future, yeah, we have a new design leader, Stephen, what's his last name?

Something like that.

So that's great.

We have a new design leader.

By everything we've heard, it sounds like Stephen LeMay is a great person for the principles that we care about.